Terry S. de Guzman is an accomplished C-suite executive and life coach offering a holistic and sustainable approach to help you meet your life and business challenges and opportunities.
Confidence comes from a Latin word “fidere” which means “to trust”; therefore, having a self-confidence is having trust in one's self. And trusting in one’s self is much more profound and complicated than looking and sounding as if we do.
We embraced this idyllic concept and forged ahead with minds curious, hearts open. We had imagined – and had a plan – about how we would execute our rewirement.
When I revealed to her that – despite the fact that I feel I am grateful for the blessings of a good life – a successful career, a loving family, supporting friends, I continue to struggle to understand what my purpose is – she responded by teaching me a prayer: “Here I am”…
Tomorrow, November 8th, America will elect its next President. The days leading up to tomorrow are defined by the nomination of the first woman - Hillary Clinton, and a man of many firsts – Donald Trump…
My memory is now a bit blurry about the sequence of events, but sometime after 9am, my meeting was interrupted by a phone call from my husband, who had just arrived at the WTC path station from NJ, to let me know that something weird was going on…
As I started to blow my birthday candle, I paused – as I was not quite sure what to wish for. I’ve celebrated thirty-seven of my 61 birthdays in my adopted country, America, and this particular birthday week has been marred by the tragic loss of lives…
I am grateful for my "different" friends who stood by me and helped me seamlessly attach myself and my family to the new cultures we ended up in. They picked on my accent and wrong cultural connections but were also genuinely curious and interested in what made me different. They also generously opened their homes and hearts to help me understand what made them different…
During a dinner conversation, one of our friends asked me a simple, profound question (most simple questions are). "How will you self-identify"? Instinctively, I said, "a mother"…
As I stood outside O’Hare to hail a cab, I felt what seemed like a splash of sub-zero wind on my face. It was biting and raw, sending chills right through my bones. OK. My honeymoon with Chicago was over.
Here I am in a new job, in a new industry, in a new city, living in a new apartment by myself. I look back and it feels like in many ways, I have been faring forward, and everything that has happened in my life has simply prepared me to be where I am today…
All of a sudden, I am overcome with this sweeping feeling of gratitude and appreciation for everything. Everything in my life. Everything at this moment feels right. This must be what being in the presence of the Divine means…
America will once again celebrate its birthday, July 4th. I will pause, find the time to cherish the memories, and celebrate with my heart…
